A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an...
By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Leg...
Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling giv...
Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew g...
I feed my kids organic food and milk, but I've also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not allowed to watch TV during the w...
I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was...
I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particu...
During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I w...
I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not be constrained by your...
There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be...
Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is...
